Well, it turns out a little thing called The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires volunteers be paid minimum wage if the organization they volunteer for is a for-profit industry. At 1.5-2 million dollars (plus retail box sales) Ultima Online is a decidedly “for profit” industry. So far the court hasn't acknowledged the suit, but methinks there is going to be a dark cloud over Britannia before long.

Turns out there just wasn't room enough in the computing industry for two-scentsoftware solutions. Yeah, you heard me. There were two companies out to make a peripheral that would release artificial scents into the air around your PC to correspond with the action on-screen. Whether browsing through a musty/dusty online museum, researching skunks, buying flowers online or playing smelling games, these products were poised to compete with each other for your compu-smelling needs. Yeah, there wasn't room for two of them. Oddly, there is room for one of them. Or so investors think…. The morons at DigiScents bought out and acquired the morons at SenseIT Technologies. Now DigiScents owns a monopoly and will soon release the iSmell Personal Scent Synthesizer. Yeah, I've got your scent synthesizer right here.

Scandinavia's Unique Development Studios recently acquired the rights to make video games for the PC, consoles and handhelds based on Futurama. Futurama, which you should be watching, is Matt Groening's (the Simpsons) second foray into serial animation. Naturally, Fox Interactive will distribute the game, whatever shape it comes in, sometime in the next three years. Let's hope it's half as good as the marvelous Simpsons games we've been enjoying for so many years. D'oh!